Developing Strategy
The Best of This Week
Pivoting in the pandemic, assessing supplier diversity initiatives, and creating a framework for discussing race.
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12 Essential Strategy Insights
We’ve collected 12 popular strategy articles to help leaders facing new challenges sharpen their strategic thinking.
Ally MacDonald
Marketing Strategy
Why Some Retailers Are Thriving Amid Disruption
In a global pandemic, a quick pivot to a digital business model may help retailers survive.
Mark J. Greeven, Howard Yu, and Jialu Shan
Organizational Behavior
The Best of This Week
Sustaining organizational culture beyond the office, creating value with opportunity marketplaces, and avoiding strategy hijacks.
The MIT SMR Editors
Executing Strategy
Don’t Let Your Strategy Be Hijacked
Strategy hijacks — situations in which companies must adjust their strategies due to consumer backlash — can be predicted and avoided.
Carsten Lund Pedersen and Thomas Ritter
Content Sponsored by PTC and BCG
Combining IoT and Augmented Reality for Business Continuity and Transformation
Recent research from BCG and PTC illustrates the power of using augmented reality (AR) and internet of things (IoT) technology together.
A webinar with Vladimir Lukic and Craig Melrose
Developing Strategy
Office Space — Sized Extra Large
The pandemic may bring sweeping changes to economic and workplace structures we take for granted.
Bruce Posner and Elizabeth Heichler
Leading Change
Leaders Must Have the Courage to Choose the Future
In a crisis, it’s easy to unconsciously prioritize the past. But this is the time to look forward.
Scott D. Anthony
Organizational Behavior
Five Ways Leaders Can Support Remote Work
A new employee survey reveals strategies that can help leaders more effectively manage a distributed workforce.
Donald Sull, Charles Sull, and Josh Bersin
Developing Strategy
The Best of This Week
Identifying postcrisis opportunities, marketing to nonbinary genders, and prioritizing during supply chain disruption.
The MIT SMR Editors
Developing Strategy
Looking for Opportunity in the Midst of Crisis
A new survey of global business leaders reveals key insights about strategic focus amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Michael Watkins and Michael Yaziji
Developing Strategy
Will COVID-19 Make Companies Rethink Cities?
Our panel of academic experts discusses whether COVID-19 may push companies to migrate out of cities.
Leading Change
Webinar: Leading Through a Crisis Day-by-Day
A webinar to help leaders proactively respond to the COVID-19 crisis.
Eric J. McNulty and Paul Michelman
Operations
Your Business Is Too Complex to Be Digital
To compete digitally, leaders must attack the complexity that comes from layers of legacy systems.
Jeanne Ross
Leadership Skills
Leading Through a Crisis Day by Day
Harvard’s Eric McNulty shares lessons from past crises that leaders can apply during the current pandemic.
Paul Michelman
Innovation Strategy
Three Proactive Response Strategies to COVID-19 Business Challenges
Amid pandemic-driven market changes, opportunities await organizations that proactively adjust their business strategies.
Michael Wade and Heidi Bjerkan
Leading Change
The CEO’s Problem to Solve
PwC’s Tim Ryan says lasting progress in diversity and inclusion requires the CEO’s full commitment.
Paul Michelman
Supply Chains & Logistics
Three Scenarios to Guide Your Global Supply Chain Recovery
The business climate remains unpredictable, but supply chain leaders should plot their comebacks.
David Simchi-Levi
Financial Management & Risk
A Long Time Until the Economic New Normal
Leaders must learn from the pandemic now to position their companies to thrive in the next crisis.
Alec Levenson
Innovation Strategy
The Original Disrupter
Clayton Christensen was more interested in getting to the right answer than in being right.